Another development in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) versus Android patent story as the various cases work their way through the courts. Samsung has requested depositions for testimony from four key designers and inventors, including Apple’s SVP of industrial Jony Ive, as part of its defense the case that Apple has…

The mobile apps industry is suffering from download-milestone overkill. Developers and publishers boast about how many times their apps have been downloaded on the various app stores, while analysts and the store owners themselves use downloads as a key metric to gauge the success of those stores. While these figures…

When it comes to battling for smartphone share in China, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is right in there with Android OEMs and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and its App Store is one of its key weapons. A report out today notes that China is Apple’s second-largest apps market after the U.S. But…

When HP (NYSE: HPQ) relaunched the WebOS and debuted its newest devices running the platform in February, its top execs made a big point of saying it was doing things differently from more established platforms like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Whether HP succeeds still remains to be seen—devices like…

It’s long been known that Nokia’s had a hard time selling its popular devices in the U.S. But its latest smartphones coming have a series of enhancements that it hopes will make it more competitive. The phones will run the latest version of the open source operating system, “Symbian^3,” which…

—Palm (NSDQ: PALM) in France: Palm is joining up with mobile operator SFR to launch its Pre and Pixi devices in France. This will be the company’s fifth market in Europe, after the UK, Germany, Spain and Ireland, where it debuted its devices with Telefonica-owned O2. via The Register Another…

If he had wanted to debunk those rumors that it might buy Palm, Nokia’s new mobile phones head Rick Simonson could have picked a more outright denial. Simonson, who in November switched from CFO to run the mobile unit of Nokia’s devices division, tells India’s Economic Times: “We have been…

It’s been rumoured since March, and now it’s official. Telefónica has got the exclusive on the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, “initially” in Spain (Movistar), the UK and Ireland (O2) and Germany (O2), “when the device is launched in Europe in time for the winter holidays”. That means Telefónica now has…

Telefonica-owned O2 has won the exclusive UK distribution rights for the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre smartphone, according to a report from Guardian.co.uk, which says an announcement is due next week. Reports have linked the two companies to a UK tie-up for the some time and it would be quite a…

O2, the UK’s exclusive carrier of the iPhone, has also sealed the deal to distribute the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, according to local press reports from Spain. Telefònica, O2’s parent company, will also be the exclusive distributor of the Palm Pre in Spain and Latin America, reports Expansion (Spanish, translation).…

HTC’s European executive director Paul Ghent is defecting to to Palm (NSDQ: PALM) as sales VP for EMEA. Ghent had helped lead HTC’s efforts to badge phones with its own logo, rather than just let carriers rename the devices, MobileToday says. The move comes with G1 having launched in Europe,…